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Old 06-13-2010 | 09:26 AM
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Is there a place on the web where I could look at a breakdown of how a tourpak is mounted to the bracket? I have a 2000 Standard and bought a tourpak with mounting bracket from an individual that I am trying to use. The bracket mounts okey on the frame but the holes on the bottom of the tourpak do not line up with the holes on the bracket. The bracket sets on the raised parts on the bottom of the tourpak but the existing holes on the tourpak are inside of this raised/bracing area. It almost seems as if there should be a flat plate on top of the mounting bracket that the tourpak in turn would mount to. The individual I bought this from never did use it but said this was all that went with it. There are four pieces of metal that have a dished out area on one side and a bolt going through them that look like they would be mounted around a tubular bracket.. I am not sure of the year of the tourpak but am wondering if there were some design mounting changes made that would be giving me this mounting problem. I can probably have a plate made to adapt the bracket to the tourpak but wondered why this isn't going together right. There are some stickers on the inside of the tourpak that have manufacturing numbers, possibly the mold style, etc. but no year. I am thinking around a 2005-2007?
 
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Old 06-13-2010 | 10:39 AM
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I have both the solo and 2up racks for the tourpak. You should have 8 holes total in the rack so you can move the tourpak forward or backward to suit your taste.

The 4 mounting holes in the tourpak itself are 7" apart both ways which of course match up with the ones in the rack.

There are no additional parts. You have the rack and the tourpak only.

Don't know if they were made different for your year or not or if your rack is from one year and the tourpak from another.

But worse case you could drill new holes in the inside plate of the tourpak to match whatever is on the rack. I did it to move the wife's tourpak more forward than the rack mounting holes allowed. Some metal shards from drilling got under the leather but I was able to work them out with a magnet.
 
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Old 06-13-2010 | 11:50 AM
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By looking at some of my friends motorcycles and checking some other web pages, I figured the same thing, that I have a bracket of one style and a tourpak from a model year that doesn't match it. I am going to go with the plate mounted onto the bracket and then just drill new holes in the plate to line up with the existing holes in the bottom of the tourpak. Thanks for the comeback.
 
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